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Presenter 3 Affiliation

Hanken School of Economics

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M. Teresa Tavormina

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Michigan State Univ.

Start Date

16-5-2015 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1325

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Henry Daniel was a fourteenth-century Dominican friar who compiled a massive uroscopy treatise and an herbal in English and who has recently been identified as a translator of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus’s De virtutibus herbarum. In addition to transmitting in English the specialist knowledge of his Latin sources, Daniel also writes much original medical material in the vernacular and is, as he states in the prologue to the uroscopy treatise, the first to convey such knowledge in English, at least in such encyclopaedic detail. In compiling and composing this medical material in the “vulgare, i.e. the comune tongue,” Daniel aimed, in turn, to profit the health of his readers by making such knowledge “more openly taghte.” Despite Daniel’s unique position not merely as a translator of Latin treatises, but also as a writer of original English medical material, his treatises have been largely overlooked in contemporary scholarship on medieval medicine in general and medieval medicine in England in particular. One reason for this critical oversight is that Daniel’s texts, though originally intended to reach many people, do not exist in complete critical editions and are thus largely inaccessible to modern scholars. This Special Session attempts to fulfil Daniel’s original aim: to make his works “more openly taghte” and to investigate his influence on the medical culture of late medieval England. To that end, this session showcases current scholarship on Daniel’s works—both uroscopic and herbal—and their specific medical, historical, and textual details.

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May 16th, 1:30 PM

"In how mich it is more openly taghte": Henry Daniel and the Early Vernacularization of English Medicine

Schneider 1325

Henry Daniel was a fourteenth-century Dominican friar who compiled a massive uroscopy treatise and an herbal in English and who has recently been identified as a translator of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus’s De virtutibus herbarum. In addition to transmitting in English the specialist knowledge of his Latin sources, Daniel also writes much original medical material in the vernacular and is, as he states in the prologue to the uroscopy treatise, the first to convey such knowledge in English, at least in such encyclopaedic detail. In compiling and composing this medical material in the “vulgare, i.e. the comune tongue,” Daniel aimed, in turn, to profit the health of his readers by making such knowledge “more openly taghte.” Despite Daniel’s unique position not merely as a translator of Latin treatises, but also as a writer of original English medical material, his treatises have been largely overlooked in contemporary scholarship on medieval medicine in general and medieval medicine in England in particular. One reason for this critical oversight is that Daniel’s texts, though originally intended to reach many people, do not exist in complete critical editions and are thus largely inaccessible to modern scholars. This Special Session attempts to fulfil Daniel’s original aim: to make his works “more openly taghte” and to investigate his influence on the medical culture of late medieval England. To that end, this session showcases current scholarship on Daniel’s works—both uroscopic and herbal—and their specific medical, historical, and textual details.